Rare earth elements sit quietly inside smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbines, yet they are notoriously difficult and dirty to produce. A new lab technique now promises to roughly double ...

Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

Indiana is preparing to work with private industry to determine the feasibility of retrieving rare earth elements from its legacy coal byproducts. Gov. Mike Braun has been spearheading efforts to ...